Apr/May 2018 Connectors Challenge

Question

Hello Connectors!

Let's begin another month of connecting the unconnected across WikiTree. We'll get the project page updated soon with last month's tallies, but for now, it's time to start connecting!

Thanks to all of you who participated in last month's Challenge. If you haven't checked out the Connectors Chat page, you should! There is a lot of chatter there about what everyone is working on.

Now on to the Connectors Challenge Rules:

1. Answer here to let us know you're in for this month, but use the tracker to record your connections.
2. Pick any WikiTree profile which is not connected to the main tree. (In other words, that profile does not have a box at the bottom of the page, showing the degrees of separation from Queen Elizabeth II etc.) You can find unconnected profiles using the Unconnected People tool, the Unconnected Profiles category, the Unlinked_Profiles category, or you may run across an unconnected profile in the regular course of your research.
3. Add a new or connect an existing profile for a first degree relative (parent, spouse, sibling, or child) of the person on that profile as a link toward a connected profile.
4. Add a source to the profiles involved in the connection showing the relationship between the two profiles. This could be a census record listing a family, a marriage record, a death record listing the spouse and/or parents, a birth record listing the parents, or any source which demonstrates that the two profiles should be connected to one another. Your source needs to be cited as closely to the style recommended on our Sources help page as possible to count towards your tally.
5. If you are adding a new profile, it is a good idea to add a second, independent source for that profile. (For example, if you add a spouse because of a marriage record, then look for a birth or death record for the spouse you're adding.) (Note: The reason for this rule isn't to discourage you from adding people. But as you have probably already learned, even official documents frequently misspell names, so adding an independent confirmation of the name helps to save other researchers time in trying to find records that don't exist, because the person's real name was not the same as showed up in the linking document.)
6. The tally is of branches/unconnected profiles connected to the WikiTree tree, not sources or profiles added. That said, if you can add a number of sources to a profile, all the better, and sometimes a connection will take a number of profiles to get added. Every one is different, and each one makes our tree better. 
7. If either or both profiles you connect did not have good sources before and were already on WikiTree, then you can also count those sources towards the Sourcerers Challenge.
8. All participants who do not already have a Connectors Project badge, will get one. Winners each month-the person with the most connections made to the tree-will get the Connection Challenge Winner badge, and the Top Connector each month with get a spiffy template to wear on their profile page. Stats will be kept on the Connectors Challenge page, just like we do for the Sourcerers Challenge.       
    

Ask questions in the comments section here. Thank you! 

 Follow your standings in the Connector Tracker.

WikiTree profile: Space:Connectors_Challenge

Comments

An easy one for someone who's able to do it -- Crowther-592 to her father Crowther-234. He's a notable who's daughter married another notable (Lynott-9). I would do it but I'm not on the Trusted List for the profile. I sent the manager a message, but he hasn't been active since 2015 so not holding my breath on that one.

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I would definitely like to work on this one as I am adding several people now and hopefully creating the connections you are looking for. I have already printed out the list of unconnected people in my tree and will start with them for the project.

Sarah H. Shaw-Saenz

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Welcome. Don’t forget to use the Tracker.

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Where/How do I add the Tracker? This is my first time and I'm still learning out to do these things.

Thank you,

Sarah

Answer 1

I will be happy to start this for Team Tennessee Volunteers as their leader.

Comments

Go Vols! Thanks, Linda.

Answer 2

I'm in for this month.

• Semlin-1 to Semlin-4 - census, marriage
• Semlin-4 to Trimble-1860 - birth, census, death, grave
• Trimble-1860 to Brousseau-414 - marriage, census
• Brousseau-414 to Brousseau-33 - census, christening, marriage, death, grave - And so, Charles Augustus Semlin, the 12th Premier of BC, is now connected!
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Comments

It’s kind of a mid challenge change, but we’re only going to be using the Tracker now.

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Alas, the Tracker doesn't work for me for connecting. (For sourcing, sure, but it has never worked for me for connecting. I have no idea why not.) So I guess I won't be able to take part in the Connectors Challenges anymore. Oh, well, it's not like I have nothing else to do on WikiTree...

Answer 3

I think I'm already in, but if not, yes.

Answer 4

I'm  in : ) Should I list them here and in the tracker?

Comments

We’re using the Tracker only.

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BTW, congrats on the notable connection.

Answer 5

I'm in.  I'll probably have questions, but sounds like fun.

Answer 6

I'm in. Time to do some connecting.

Answer 7

I'll give it a go. I usually work unofficially on the New Zealand unconnected notables so I might start there.

Answer 8

I would like to try this. I am the one always entering new, unattached profiles, so this should be my penance! Not sure how effective I will be, but willing to give it a try!

Comments

Glad to have you with us. Don’t forget to use the tracker.

Answer 9

I'm in this month! I just finished connecting 58 profiles in the family Van den Bergh by creating a daughter of Van Den Bergh-244 that married a son of Wijnen-17

Comments

Just made a connection for Dan Heil for his branch of 150 profiles via the Dutch profiles:

Cornelia Elisabeth Pieternella (Hollestelle) Serlé as daughter of Hollestelle-15

Jacobus Serlee as spouse for Cornelia Elisabeth Pieternella (Hollestelle) Serlé

Jacobus Serlé as father for Jacobus Serlee

Katharina (Unknown) Van Der Blasch as child for Jacobus Serlé

How do I record the added profiles with a tracker? When adding a profile I don't see a link to the tracker.

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Another branch just connected: Van den Berg-1613 for 82!

First added Aron den Arend as child for Lena (van den Berg) den Arend. Then added Sophia (van Koppelen) den Arend as spouse for Aron den Arend, Levie van Koppelen as father for Sophia (van Koppelen) den Arend. He was also the father of van Koppelen-2

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Made a connection for the Schroeter branch, 121 profiles connected! This time I used the tracker twice and the second time it said the profile did not count in this challenge. "For this challenges profile doesn't officially qualify:" Oh well, just connecting :D

First added Jan Minne as father for Anna Wilmpje (Minne) Middelberg, added Margaretha (Minne) Doijer as child for Jan Minne, added Assuerus Doijer as spouse for Margaretha (Minne) Doijer, added Antonie Assuerus Doijer as father for Assuerus Doijer, He was the son of Doijer-4

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Made a connection for Stinson-274 for 104 profiles via textile industrials Spanjaard in Borne,Overijssel,

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Made a connection for Yallop-6 via Dutch painters Andreas Schelfhout and Antoine Waldorp. 149 profiles in one fell swoop!

And yesterday connected Schaplow-11 for 88 profiles

Tally so far: 752 profiles connected.

Answer 10

1. Whee! I just had the satisfaction of connecting a cluster of unconnecteds that apparently were created back in 2015. Cordelia Schermerhorn Jones-36340 is now connected to her parents (her mother https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schermerhorn-201 was connected), thus also connecting her husband's whole family. Source is a marriage record (including both partners' parents' names). CONNECTED!